What’s Happening This Week During Spring Migration: April 20
Join us each week as we show which birds to look out for in your neighborhood and highlight other nature events throughout the year.
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We Couldn’t Do It Without You: The Incredible Impact of Portland Audubon Volunteers
As part of volunteer appreciation week, we are sharing the tremendous impact our volunteers have had over the past year. In 2019, 605 volunteers contributed their time, energy, and expertise, totaling an incredible 48,966 hours of service.
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Mamie Campbell and Youth Volunteer Award Winners 2020
Each year, Portland Audubon staff nominate and honor a cadre of our most dedicated volunteers with the prestigious Mamie Campbell and Youth Leadership Awards. Volunteers who receive these awards are deeply committed, oftentimes putting in hundreds of hours each year, taking on roles in numerous areas of the organization, and working with us for years or sometimes even decades.
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What’s Happening This Week During Spring Migration: April 13
Join us each week as we show which birds to look out for in your neighborhood and highlight other nature events throughout the year.
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Four Home Improvement Projects to Help Wildlife
We’ve got four home improvement projects that will both benefit your space and wildlife. More than ever, our homes are our sanctuaries. Let’s make them (at least the outside parts) sanctuaries for wildlife too.
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Meet the Neighbors: Portland Metro Area’s Backyard Birds
The time has come to get to officially meet your neighbors: the birds. For many folks, both birders and people who are new to birding alike, watching the birds just outside our doors brings joy during hard times.
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Exploring the World of Birds with Tu-Wa-Kii Nobi
This winter, Portland Audubon and the Tribe’s Wildlife Program organized a Tu-Wa-Kii Nobi CBC4Kids (Christmas Bird Count for Kids) program.
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6 Bird Songs and Calls and How You Can Memorize Them
Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and spring is officially here! There’s no better time than now to level up your birding skills, and if you’re a newer birder, learning songs and calls is a great place to start.
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2019 in Review: Wildlife Care Center
This past year was a wild ride. We cared for 4,011 animals, a record high! To put that in perspective, in 2018 we cared for just over 3,000 animals, so that’s almost a 30% increase in just one year. Interestingly, we saw increases in species intakes across the board, with native mammals (like bats, chipmunks, and ground squirrels) representing the only statistically significant proportional increase.
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Disabled Hikers: Outdoor Hikes and Guides Made by and for People with Disabilities
Disabled Hikers follows the important movement of folks from marginalized communities challenging the stereotypes that are consistently reinforced on billboards, TV, movies, and magazines: that hikers are white, straight, thin, young, affluent, and able bodied.
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